Evelyn Clayton looked at him coldly for a long time and slowly said, "You love her a lot, don’t you?"
Soren Foster held his forehead, remaining silent.
"What a pity, she doesn’t love you," Evelyn said mockingly. "What she loves most is money and status."
Soren covered his face. Evelyn couldn’t see his expression, but she could see Soren’s hands trembling slightly.
Suddenly, Soren raised his head, his eyes bloodshot as he glared at Evelyn: "What do you want from me? You want me to betray her, is that it?"
Evelyn had a cryptic smile, "You’re overthinking. I’m just curious. Soren, from the moment you knew Julia Lawrence jumped to her death, what did you feel?"
"Did you feel relieved, or did you feel a wasteland in your heart?"
"Because the only person in this world who wanted nothing from you, who liked you purely, is gone."
Evelyn slowly dismantled Soren’s mental defenses step by step, "I think you know better than I do how pure Julia’s feelings were for you. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have abandoned the great future I offered her, wouldn’t have betrayed me just to gain your favor... After the incident, have you dreamt about her? Have you thought of her?"
Soren closed his eyes in pain.
Evelyn pressed on relentlessly, "Have you thought about how, if you hadn’t appeared, Julia might be doing better now, breaking free from her bleak life, moving towards a brighter future?!"
Evelyn’s words were deafening. A tear slipped from the corner of Soren’s eye.
He averted his eyes in embarrassment, almost murmuring, "It’s my fault for letting her down..."
Evelyn exhaled slightly, not forgetting to turn on the recording function of her phone, her tone gradually calming, "Why do you say that? How did you let her down?"
"Some time ago, I went to see her..."
"I hoped she would leave here, go somewhere where no one knows her. But I didn’t expect she would jump... because, two hours before I heard the news, she called me from an unknown phone."
Soren took a deep breath, his eyes unfocused: "She said she would leave, and she asked if she could see me again in the future."
Evelyn felt a strange pang in her heart: "What did you say?"
"I said, don’t bother me anymore. I told her to leave, to go far away. I said I never wanted to see her again."
At this point, there was a deathly silence in the room.
Evelyn stared coldly at Soren, her chest filled with fury.
She couldn’t tell if she pitied Julia or if she felt that she and Gem were both innocent victims in this tragedy.
"Did Summer Monroe instruct you to see her and make her leave?" Evelyn’s fingertips gently tapped the table, knocking it rhythmically, "Let me guess, Summer’s intention was to make you get rid of her, to prevent me from stirring up the Lucy Carter incident again. So you went to find her."
Saying this, Evelyn chuckled lightly, "And then Julia did something foolish. She thought you were forcing her, forcing her to truly, completely disappear from this world."
Soren stopped speaking, as if his soul had been drained, leaving only an empty shell.
"Soren, let me be blunt," Evelyn said as she discreetly paused the recording, "If I pursue the beginning and end of the Lucy Carter event now, Summer won’t get implicated because she’ll definitely push you out front to take the hit."
"And by then, even if you aren’t the culprit behind Julia’s death, public opinion will push you onto the pyre, burning you to ashes." Check latest chapters at ɴovelfire.net